Wright Wreasons: TV Staches

On the Mt. Rushmore of staches, Magnum is Washington.

Welcome to our new feature, Wright Wreasons.  From time to time, we’ll use these posts to illustrate convincing reasons why it just makes sense for David Wright to grow a mustache.  We can give you our opinions until we are Mets blue in the face, but these Wright Reasons make for a much stronger argument.  Today’s Wright Wreason: High-rated TV mustaches of David Wright’s birth year, 1982.

David is a product of the 1980s, a TV-centric decade.  All of us from the late 1970s and 1980s generations are reflections of the television shows from that era.  Take me, for example.  My father built me a robot sister and adopted several black children to live in our penthouse apartment while I was a teen-aged doctor.

So, let’s take a look at the top five Nielsen rated shows of the 1982/1983 television season and the mustaches that made them successful. Read more »